KEMBLE’S  COONS 


KEMBLE’S  COONS 


A Collection  of  Southern  Sketches 

BY 

EDWARD  W.  KEMBLE 


MDCCCXCYII 


Copyright  1896 
By  Robert  Howard  Russell 


Free  Cotton  and  Free  Wool- 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2017  with  funding  from 
Getty  Research  Institute 


https://archive.org/details/kemblescoonscollOOkemb 


Ain’  dis  jes’  like  quality? 


MMpgPr  SMMMpMM 


Hol’  on  tight  dar  en  min’  yo’self,  chile  ! 


Stop  dat  frowin’  dem  sediments  ober  yeah  ! You  all  want  ter  rum  dese  garments  ? 


Mammy’s  li’l  honey  boy. 


Maternal  Cares 


Rosemary. 


A Pair  of  Bald  Heads, 


A Pair  of  Coons 


Temptation. 


A Virginia  Creeper. 


The  Interrupted  Feast 


He  ain’  bin  borned  long. 


®®33Sifc. 


Scrub  Day. 


Dar’s  a heap  o’  comfort  suckin’  on  dis  yere  ole  pipe 


Whar  you  done  come  fum 


A Dusky  Smile, 


“Yer  skirt  dancers  ain’  in  it  wif  dis  chile.” 


Go  ’way  fum  me,  chile— I’se  got  blue  blood. 


Ebenezer. 


Dis  chile  ain’  scared  ob  no  rain  no  how 


G’way  fum 


heah — wan’  me  ter  upsot  dese  pickins  ? 


Florida  Live  Stock, 


“ Dat  hab  de  smell. 


“ I’se  a-watchin’  yer,  honey.” 


I’se  jus’  plum  full  er  misery,  I is.” 


I'se  jes  tired  ob  education,  dat’s  what  I is.” 


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Fo’  forty  yeahs  wif  de  bes’  family  of  Virginia;  yaas,  sah ! 


“ So  long  to  yer,  white  folks.” 


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